Silver Fern Farms Limited

Silver Fern Farms is New Zealand's leading and largest processor, marketer and exporter of premium quality lamb, beef, venison and associated products. The company was registered in 1948 as the Primary Producers Cooperative Society (PPCS) until it changed its name and brand in 2008 to Silver Fern Farms. Silver Fern Farms is a partnership between Shanghai Maling Aquarius Ltd. and farmer-owned Silver Fern Farms Co-operative Ltd.

Silver Fern Farms consists of 14 processing sites spread throughout both islands of New Zealand, corporate offices based in Dunedin, Christchurch, Hastings and Auckland. At its peak seasonal employment Silver Fern Farms employs over 6000 staff across its multiple sites. Silver Fern Farms has an increasing physical presence in key global markets of China, North America and Europe.

Silver Fern Farms purchases livestock from over 16000 supplying farms from throughout New Zealand.

Silver Fern Farms' purpose is to create goodness from the farms the world needs. Silver Fern Farms as a food producer has made both short and long-term commitments to sustainability across 8 material issues, expressed in our Sustainability Action Plan. The focus areas of the sustainability action plan align strongly with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Silver Fern Farms is a member of the Climate Leaders Coalition, the Sustainable Business Council, the Aotearoa Circle, and the Global Round Table for Sustainable Beef and have committed to Near-term targets with the Science Based Targets Initiative. Having an independently verified measure of our GHG emissions and targets that uses globally accepted standards is critical to our reporting to those organisations and to our customers. We are optimistic and have a high degree of commitment to the positive role our company, our farmers and our customers can play in a transition to a low carbon global economy. We are reducing our processing emissions as fast as we can, adopting science aligned targets to 1.5 degrees and have, in 2022 made a significant commitment to investing in research to reduce emissions from livestock. Climate Innovation is a key pillar of our Sustainability Action Plan and we have linked GHG emissions reduction targets to a Sustainability linked working capital facility.

In addition to certifying their business operations as Toitū carbon reduce, Silver Fern Farms has also certified the production system and lifecycle for selected ranges listed below.